
Kinga Baranowska
A mountaineer, has summited 9 eight-thousanders.
She reached three of them (Dhaulagiri, Manaslu, Kangchenjunga) as the first Polish woman. Former member of the Polish national team of the Polish Mountaineering Association (PZA), currently a vice-president of the Mountaineering Club in Warsaw. Winner of numerous awards, like the Award of the Ministry of Sport for climbing the third highest summit of the world, the Golden Cross of Merit “for her contribution to the development of mountaineering sports, for promoting Poland in the world”, as well as the contest for the best speaking Poles-Master of Polish Speech.
Kinga climbed all the eight-thousanders without using supplemental oxygen.